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• Arij Kreuk, Ouderkerk aan den IJssel († 1786)
• Annetje Adams Westdijk, Vierpolders († 1810)
• Annetje Wesdijk, Vierpolders
• Berendina Cornelissen, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje van Merkenstein, Ochten († 1836)
• Berendina Cornelia Wassink, Apeldoorn († 1852)
• Berendina Wassink, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland († 1852)
• Adriana Schoonen, Nispen
• Abram van der Kuin, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abigail Jacoba Zuurkappij, Nieuw-Vossemeer, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1848)

• Elisabeth van Beek (74), Leyden
• Henricus Mathijssen MOUS (47), Kalmthout,, Antwerpen, België
• Joannes Baptista Brenders (37), Riel, Brabant, Nederland
• Elsken te Keveler, Zieuwent
• Antoine Grondin (0)
• Friedrich Karl Wilhelm Ludwig VON HESSEN-PHILIPPSTHAL-BARCHFELD (0), Barchfeld, Thüringen, Germany
• Elijsebeth Elsken te Keveler (63), Lichtenvoorde
• Geneviève Rosalie Agathe SINOQUET (0)
• Jean Louis Maizonnet (70), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Jean Benoit Logeot (74), Herchies, Hainaut, Be

• 1748 » Christian Gottlob Neefe, German composer and conductor († 1798)
• 1788 » Robert Peel, English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1850)
• 1795 » Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist († 1871)
• 1804 » Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet and hymn-writer († 1877)
• 1808 » Carl Spitzweg, German painter and poet († 1885)
• 1810 » Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist and composer († 1880)
• 1827 » Peter Lalor, Irish-Australian activist and politician († 1889)
• 1837 » Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist and publisher, founded Moody Church, Moody Bible Institute, and Moody Publishers († 1899)
• 1840 » Hiram Maxim, American engineer, invented the Maxim gun († 1916)
• 1840 » John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish businessman, co-founded Dunlop Rubber († 1921)

• 1705 » Philipp Spener, German theologian and author (b. 1635)
• 1751 » Henri François d'Aguesseau, French jurist and politician, Chancellor of France (b. 1668)
• 1754 » Nicolaas Kruik, Dutch astronomer and cartographer (b. 1678)
• 1766 » Count Leopold Joseph von Daun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
• 1775 » Eusebius Amort, German theologian and academic (b. 1692)
• 1790 » William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710)
• 1807 » Pasquale Paoli, Corsican commander and politician (b. 1725)
• 1818 » Charles XIII, king of Sweden (b. 1748)
• 1881 » Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher, historian, and academic (b. 1795)
• 1882 » Adolfo Rivadeneyra, Spanish orientalist and diplomat (b. 1841)

• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• April 18 » Three-Fifths Compromise: the first instance of black slaves in the United States of America being counted as three fifths of persons (for the purpose of taxation), in a resolution of the Congress of the Confederation. This was later adopted in the 1787 Constitution.
• June 8 » Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
• June 22 » A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
• July 24 » The Kingdom of Georgia and the Russian Empire sign the Treaty of Georgievsk.
• August 4 » Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing about 1,400 people. The eruption causes a famine, which results in an additional 20,000 deaths.
• November 4 » Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.

The temperature on February 5, 1783 was about 7.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.